Summary: The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARSidey, Ken, ed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MEREDITH BOOKS 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 694 SideySnider, Dee
Summary: This picture book of Dee Snider's classic song of empowerment and self-determination will strike a chord with kids everywhere. Oh we're not gonna take it No, we ain't gonna take it Oh we're not gonna take it anymore We're Not Gonna Take It is a playful picture book echoing 1980s hair band Twisted Sister's most popular antiestablishment anthem. As part of their triple-platinum album Stay Hungry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: Upset when an important letter does not arrive in the mail as expected, Jack wanders through the park not even noticing what he is doing and becomes an unwitting hero.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lemniscaat 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC heiFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Describes the life of a man who has ruled Cuba since 1959, after leading a successful revolution overthrowing Batistas government and establishing a Communist regime in its place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CASMED.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stonesthrow 2005
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP MedSummary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOSeidel, Jeff.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.33263 SEIRubenfeld, Jed.
Summary: A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder. Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Summary: When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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Contents: Ain't misbehavin' -- Fine and dandy -- Moonglow -- I surrender dear -- Sweet Lorraine (I) -- Sweet Lorraine (II).
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Amsco Pub. 1981
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 786.2 DISHorne, Jed
Summary: The true story of a car-jacking in New Orleans chronicles the death of a white housewife at the hands of a young black man and the subsequent trials, which gradually reveal a story of passion and revenge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HORSummary: Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER REDSummary: "In the heart of downtown Seattle is the Union Gospel Mission - a homeless shelter catering to the addicted and the abused. For these men and women, hope is a novelty, self-esteem a luxury, and recovery a faraway ideal. But within the UGM is one man, an ex-Army Ranger, who believes in them. Believes in life. Believes in mountains. And he will attempt to use one of the most treacherous peaks in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NEWSnider, Brandon T.
Summary: "Since the 1980s, the Transformers toy line has been defining the lives of children with its mighty heroes. But the Robots in Disguise have morphed into much more than just a toy line! This biography for young readers tells the incredible story of the tiny toys that became blockbuster movie stars, comic book heroes, and more. Ride along with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Megatron as you learn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Amato Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.17 DAVHorne, Jed
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 HORRasula, Jed
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 RASSummary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTSummary: Larry's got it all: a loving wife, good friends, a successful carreer, and a great home. He is prone to speaking the unspeakable, honest to the point of insensitivity, Larry is a walking victim of misunderstandings and missed opportunities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CURSummary: Join Ernie at The Furry Arms Hotel for a musical lesson in just how useful counting can be. When Ernie finds and returns a misplaced key, he uses his knowledge of numbers to return the key to the correct guest. As Ernie begins to learn about the hotel business, he finds many common situations in which counting is essential. A series of jazzy songs assist Ernie and his friends to help children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Television Workshop 1999
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Summary: Provides an easy-to-follow, four-step model to improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, understanding why a meltdown occurs, and creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Future Horizons Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.9285 BAKPerl, Jed
Summary: "The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020